Thread: Protectors of Thangulhad - encounter Ruithroval.

I have spent over 15 hours in this skirmish in last couple of days, just to kill this drake. Tried Solo skirmishes in level range 67-75, tier 1-3, tried Duo lv67-75 Tier 1-3, tried not to shoot from catapults, tried to shoot from every - no luck. Has anyone seen this encounter trigger after Update 7? In many attempts I had only one encounter, isnt it supposed to be 2 every time?
Are there any requiretments to get that particular encounter triggered?

i havent run this one much recently so i can't with any certainty say this encounter isn't bugged (may have run it once or twice in the past month, and can't say for sure which encounters I got, or if the drake was among them). one of the thievery and mischief encounters was bugged on release iirc and would not appear, and that skirmish also would occasionally only give one encounter (perhaps the 2nd would have been the bugged one). that said, thangulhad has 5 time-sensitive encounters (the drake is not one of them), 3 challenges and 2 pathers that will disappear if you don't engage them in time, are you certain you didn't just miss the encounter text and so have them leave before you saw them? there are other skirmishes (amon sul, attack at dawn) that have specific conditions for certain encounters to appear, but thangulhad is not one of them afaik.

Thangulhad has 9 possible encounters iirc, so the chance of getting a particular one is somewhat low. I have the same problem with one of the guys in Breaching the Necromancer's gate. Have never seen him spawn since Mirkwood release. (I did however run Thangulhad much more religiously in those days and thus completed that deed). It used to be that if Ruithroval spawned, then while he flew in towards the tower he would circle around and his flame aura would hit the helper elf chick and cause her to agro as soon as he became attackable (thus removing the "optional" aspect of the encounter.) Supposedly this was changed at some point or another but I haven't run it much since then or paid much attention when I have run it.

That drake appears behind the big tower in the camp. I recall having to run around a fair bit before I managed to find him. You get a message about flame erupting from the top of the tower I think.

There were 2 encounters each time I ran it. But some of the guys require you to hit them with a catapult before the encounter triggers, and some walk down the road outside the fort and will disappear if you don't run out to them fairly quickly. But the drake should just sit there until you hunt him down.

You get a message about a "screech from the top of the tower". The drake then circles round for a bit (a minute or two) before settling right round the back of the tower. He doesn't despawn and can be killed after defeating the boss (but obviously before speaking to the Elf to end the instance).

I've never had less than two encounters, but as noted above some are easy to miss and of the nine, six need to be tagged within a certain amount of time or they disappear. But the drake is not one of those six and there are no special conditions for any encounter to spawn, they are just random.

I've had it spawn since the last update, so it's still available. That was in a raid skirmish.

So I get it done, in raid size.

I get to conclusion that in solo/duo this encounter is broken, havnt tried trio/fellow. Thats becouse in many tries I had only one encounter. Buged it just in case.

I got it in a solo skirm last week.

i had the same with mazaukrat in assault, took me over 50 solo runs to finally have him spawn, its just a mixture of patience and luck i guess.....

still need the breninn encounter on storm on methedras aswell, which i havent seen once in a lot of runs

Originally Posted by Chewie-nl

still need the breninn encounter on storm on methedras aswell, which i havent seen once in a lot of runs

I just got that *eight* times in a row while wanting Rhodri

It's all random.

I get rhodri everytime i go in, in fact....

We have encountered each other so often that i know his last name, his brothers, sisters and his folks aswell :')